Civil War Reenacting Meets American Idol

Things have been a bit slow around here this week owing to the amount of time I’ve spent preparing our house to be sold. I have to say that it was at times difficult going through my library and making the tough decisions as to what to keep and what to discard.

One of my readers tipped me off to this video from the 2011 auditions for “American Idol.”

Well, Mr. Nathaniel Jones, you lost. Defeated by the Confederates!
3 forces of entertainment joined for a common purpose – to vote you out!
And ironically, all 3 were drinking from a cup, whose logo bore a trademark
representing a beverage made famous by a Confederate Soldier

For the Civil War buffs among us, it’s really worth spending some time over at Kevin Levin’s blog, Civil War Memory. I can’t act like I discovered the place–some readers brought it to my attention. But it’s a great blog dealing in exactly what its title claims.